00:00:00.160Hello, my friends. What a big show today. I talked a little bit more about my ban from
00:00:04.940the United Kingdom, and I'm glad to say I found allies today, too. Plus, our friend Alexa
00:00:09.540Lavoie was on the ground in London, so she's got the reports for you. And then a hearty
00:00:14.220conversation with our friend Lauren Gunter about Mark Carney's visit to Alberta and
00:00:18.440what the pipeline MOU means and doesn't mean. And I got a funny clip for you from Monty
00:00:23.900Python to illustrate the point. That's all ahead. But first, let me invite you to get
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00:07:19.980And in just a few days, Tommy Robinson is set to hold his massive United Kingdom rally.
00:07:28.360And apparently, that has Keir Starmer's government terrified.
00:07:33.640In the lead-up to this event, the UK government has started cancelling visas
00:07:40.320and blocking entry for commentators, activists, journalists and even politicians connected to Tommy Robinson's rally.
00:07:50.260And you'll see it again on Saturday at a march designed to confront and intimidate this diverse city and this diverse country.
00:08:00.440That is why this Labour government will block far-right agitators from travelling to Britain for that event.
00:08:05.820Because we will not allow people to come to the UK to strengthen our communities and spread hate on our streets.
00:08:12.880My colleague, Avi Yimini, wasn't even planning to come.
00:08:18.380Yet, he still received an email from the UK government revoking a visa he had applied for more than a year ago.
00:08:28.920claiming his presence in the UK was not conducive to the public good.
00:08:35.800But what exactly is conducive to the public good under Kiev's armour?
00:08:42.600Are boats filled with illegal migrants conducive to the public good?
00:08:48.900Are radical Islamist preachers conducive to the safety of British communities?
00:08:55.200or the grooming gangs he once tried to shield are?
00:09:01.400This socialist government has become a world leader
00:09:05.200in arresting people over nonviolent online speech
00:09:08.840far ahead of countries like Russia and China.
00:09:13.960Starmer knows he can't stop Tommy Robinson's supporters
00:09:18.180through the court because the law is not on his side.
00:09:23.760So instead, his government is using executive powers to deny people entry into this country.
00:09:31.260This is not democracy. This is political censorship.
00:09:35.440Keir Starmer refuses debate. He refuses criticism.
00:09:40.300And he refuses to take responsibility for the failed policies that have left so many people in this country feeling abandoned.
00:09:50.100Following these visa cancellations, Ben Habib, chairman of the advocacy group Great British, wrote to Stormer's government warning that Britain has historically distinguished itself from authoritarian systems precisely because it has defended the principle that controversial speech is answered.
00:10:20.100by debate he also wrote that the british public is increasingly concerned that the term far right
00:10:29.940is now being deployed indiscriminately against conservatives nationalists immigration critics
00:10:38.260cultural traditionalists and political dissenters generally in his letter habib is demanding that
00:10:47.540the government released the information used to justify these entry bans explained under which
00:10:54.820legal authority they act and answered for what appears to be a politically motivated crackdown
00:11:03.860but i made it in i was able to fly under the radar and i'm here because the truth needs to be shown
00:31:14.820It is solely a cost of doing business.
00:31:18.600So when you think about what we intended to do with the carbon tax is it really works when it's globally applied and that can be passed on to the consumer.
00:31:27.260The consumer sees the higher cost of the product that they're consuming and they consume less of it and you get the price signal going back to the producer who produces less.
00:31:36.900what we've done is we've put a carbon tax on in Canada
00:31:59.800so it's simply a cost of doing business
00:32:01.760that has to be incorporated into any investment decision
00:32:05.160But we have that, plus we have the tanker ban, plus we have clean electricity regulations, plus we have methane regulations.
00:32:13.200And all of this is just combined to make an incredibly complicated policy framework that makes investments in Canada difficult and non-competitive with other countries like the U.S. and countries in Asia.
00:32:27.420That's the first grown-up I've heard talking about these things almost ever.
00:32:31.760I mean, if you're selling Canadian oil abroad, no one cares about how you, about any of that.
00:32:40.240Countries that are buying oil from, let's say, Iran, they don't care about carbon.0.91
00:32:44.600They just are so desperate for oil they'll buy from the world's terrorists.0.98
00:32:50.840But instead of this sort of baffle gab, fake language about credits and markets, that's not real.
00:32:57.280What that guy just said there is the realest real I've ever heard.
00:33:00.260Yeah, I know. And he is, or his company, Synovus, is part of the Pathways Alliance, which is supposed to be building this carbon capture network that could cost up to $20 billion so that they can capture carbon from the exploration and extraction of oil and oil sands.
00:33:21.280and uh thereby we can go to the world and say see our our oil is so clean you'll you'll want
00:33:28.240to buy from us at a premium because then you'll feel morally better about the purchase and as you
00:33:33.940said nobody cares about that that even even the western countries that might buy oil from us
00:33:41.640japan for instance they don't care about that they care about what the price is and the price
00:33:46.840is too high if you start adding all that stuff to it at one point i must be about a year ago now
00:33:52.600carney said well we'll have a much better chance to break into markets if we have clean oil because
00:33:59.940people like the europeans will want to buy from us enough no they won't they want to buy from
00:34:06.500whoever's selling the cheapest oil yeah right now they're buying from vladimir putin they're buying
00:34:11.180conflict oil and conflict gas so if you're willing to buy from the guy that they say they all hate
00:34:17.160him and i believe that but they have literally spent more money on energy from russia than they
00:34:22.080have given to uh ukraine in foreign aid they have funded russia more than than they have funded
00:34:28.980ukraine because they buy conflict energy yeah no no no doubt about it and that's not going to change
00:34:37.520You know, we are hoping that if we put a new pipeline, a million barrels a day out to the West Coast, that we're going to find all sorts of new Asian clients, Indonesia, China, Japan, lots of other countries over that way, Vietnam, will be potential customers of ours.
00:34:58.260They're not going to pay an extra 20% to Canada just so that we can feel as though, you know, we've made Greta Thunberg more comfortable.
00:35:06.960it's ridiculous it really is you mentioned the 20 billion dollars just for this fake industry of
00:35:14.760capturing carbon by the way i'm emitting carbon talking to you right now i apologize and earlier
00:35:19.940today i emitted a little methane don't tell anybody but uh my point is that these are naturally
00:35:24.740occurring elements it's rather insane to try and regulate them by the way in the netherlands
00:35:28.900here builders tells me they were trying to regulate nitrogen let's just go through the whole
00:35:32.740periodic table of the elements is wacky but you mentioned 20 billion dollars um just super quick
00:35:38.960math if there's a roughly five million albertans rough so that works out to four thousand dollars
00:35:45.760per person let's say the average family is i don't know three people four people in the average
00:35:50.420family so that's 15 grand let's say per family so because of ottawa's bizarre fetish and their0.67
00:35:59.560hatred of the west fifteen thousand dollars that could go per family to whatever is going for some
00:36:06.880scheme that you know liberal lobbyists are up to their eyeballs in anyways that's super gross to
00:36:11.360me i once wrote that you know a thousand years from now some uh anthropologist is going to stand
00:36:17.560up at a conference and try to explain carbon capture to his or her colleagues and they're0.92
00:36:23.320all going to start to howl and say uh ed you're nuts you're trying to tell us that they took air
00:36:28.380and stuck it in the ground for some reason or try to make cows not fart exactly by the way that's0.95
00:36:34.600basically all we're talking about and um and i don't care how big the super el nino is going to
00:36:42.220be this summer uh i saw a story about a week ago that there was another super el nino in 1877 but
00:36:51.060you can bet they'll blame this one yeah on on global warming and climate change but how do you
00:36:56.760explain the one in 1877 i mean this just happens every once in a while in weather most of our
00:37:02.740weather just happens every once in a while and you can capture all the carbon you want and shove
00:37:08.100it into caves below coal lake alberta you're not going to accomplish a thing yeah it's almost as
00:37:13.620if um mark carney is doing something that might benefit his dear friends in communist china who
00:37:19.860are building you know two or three new coal fire plant plants every week hey um here's the point
00:37:25.180about this mou and that just a reminder that stands for memorandum of understanding and
00:37:29.240lauren i think you're right to say it's almost like a agreement to have an agreement it's not
00:37:33.220an agreement it's not a contract it's sort of vague principles that together maybe something
00:37:38.080will happen what's missing is i mean we showed john mckenzie the boss of synovus who's talking
00:37:44.080real talk what's missing is an oil man willing to say all right i'll ship a half a million barrels
00:37:51.760a day in the pipeline and i can commit to spend x amount of money to get this thing built that's
00:37:57.200often how pipelines are done they go out and sort of canvas different producers and say we're going
00:38:01.780to build a pipeline how much of it do you want we're going to put you down for this percent that
00:38:06.560percent and together we'll make this thing work because the pipelines are often for a variety of
00:38:11.380customers that's how it works no one has come forward and it made me think of that old monty
00:38:15.880Python sketch. Let me play just one minute for you, Lauren, because there's someone missing
00:38:22.020in this conversation about pipelines, and maybe Monty Python can help us remember. Take a look
00:38:28.020at this. You'll get a little chuckle. It's a bit of a bear in it there, isn't it? Yes.
00:38:35.700Yes. More apparatus, please, nurse. The EEG, the BP monitor, and the AVV. And get the machine that
00:38:43.460and get the most expensive machines in case the administrator comes.
00:39:01.460Golly good. That's better. That's much, much better.
00:39:13.460oh that's right just missing one thing who the patient so who are we missing with all this talk
00:39:22.780about oil well a single proponent who would say yeah i i really think this is worth putting five
00:39:31.440ten billion dollars into as opposed to going to venezuela i personally know an oil man for a
00:39:37.040multi-billion dollar company in calgary who is in venezuela doing deals because it is a lower risk
00:39:43.020adjusted rate of return in venezuela than alberta oh we've got all the machines that go beep but we
00:39:50.160don't have a customer lauren exactly and you know you might find six or ten oil companies that are
00:39:58.040prepared to jump in if this is guaranteed but there's a section in this new agreement that
00:40:04.480was signed today i think it's 4.1.4 that says basically if the federal government is
00:40:11.860pleased with all the consultation the Alberta government does with First Nations. And if
00:40:18.140private backers can be found, then we'll think about accelerating the approval rate,
00:40:24.580the approval process to September 1, 2027. Well, that's an awful lot of ifs. Yeah. Because they've
00:40:30.820already, the Assembly of First Nations, the West Coast First Nations, a lot of other organizations
00:40:36.220between Alberta and the BC coast first nations have said no we're not going to sign off on this
00:40:43.100doesn't matter you know I think you can I think you can deal with the Alberta first nations who
00:40:48.340have shown themselves to have some entrepreneurial smarts and and for a share of the pie they will
00:40:54.900they will give their approval but in BC they play games all the time you might remember with
00:41:01.400the coastal gas link pipeline that was taking uh gas from the northeastern uh bc fields out to the
00:41:09.260coast that there was one group of three reserves that had elected chiefs elected councils and
00:41:18.880inherit and hereditary right i remember and the elected chiefs and councils all favored the pipeline
00:41:26.440but the feds went out and found the hereditary chiefs most of whom weren't like ancient old
00:41:33.360first nations people uh most of them were sort of ceremonial in their in their positions and those
00:41:40.880unelected hereditary chiefs said no and so the feds said well we can't we can't we can't
00:41:48.480go against them uh the first nations have said no what's it going to take for alberta
00:41:55.300to get through that kind of mess, especially now in BC with DRIPA, the Declaration of Rights of
00:42:03.780Indigenous Peoples Act, which is basically what has been used to take away private property in
00:42:10.780Richmond, BC. It's been used to kill mega projects in the rest of the project. BC is a real mess
00:42:19.840right now i can see why nutrient the the big fertilizer maker in saskatchewan decided to put
00:42:26.020their port yeah in washington state because they get away from all of that hooey with eb the premier
00:42:35.680and all the first nations in bc well i mean we just saw a couple days ago um a trudeau appointed
00:42:41.800judge in alberta say oh sorry 300 000 people petition to ask for a referendum question i have
00:42:49.540discovered a new indigenous right to be consulted before petitions can be just making it up yeah
00:42:57.780and slaughtering the democratic will not just of the 300 000 who signed that petition but 400 000
00:43:04.280signed a counter petition oh but but a judge said no no no we're gonna in the name of indigenous
00:43:09.860and if you oppose this court ruling of course you're racist um yeah i wouldn't trust that i
00:43:15.860By the way, I asked, I had an interview a couple months ago with the ambassador from the United States, Pete Hoekstra, and I asked him, would you be open to a pipeline going through America?
00:43:26.480And he said, of course. Here's a clip of that.
00:43:29.780Number one is the, you know, very positive statement about Alberta, but I think it's how Americans generally feel about Canada.
00:43:39.960OK, you could get us saying lots of positive things about lots of of the provinces in the how we've developed our ecosystems together.
00:43:50.460I know that Besant, Secretary of Rights, Secretary Burgum, President Trump, you know, it's kind of like, yeah, pump a bunch, put a pipeline down to the border.
00:44:04.440Our responsibility then to put pipelines on our side of the border that will take whatever oil Canada decides that they want to ship to the United States.
00:44:15.300And the, you know, again, there's lots of uses that we would have for it.
00:44:20.320in terms of processing it and those kinds of things.